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Municipalities of the Netherlands

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All provinces of the Netherlands are divided into municipalities (gemeenten), together 458 (2006); among these we can distinguish:

Recent politics have led to a great number of mergers between smaller municipalities or with cities.

In 2005 the number of municipalities was reduced by 16: 7 were each added to an existing municipality, and four new municipalities were formed by merging 5, 4, 2, and 2 municipalities.

All municipalities are listed in the province articles, see:

Alphabetic list

Further subdivisions

Based on a subdivision made for the 1947 census, there are ca. 2,400 quarters, subdivided in ca. 11,000 neighborhoods.

On the other hand, there is a list of 7,000 places.

A large place consists of several quarters, but a small place is only part of a quarter.

See links below.

See also

External links

For the links below, and the articles, note that they do not always reflect the 2006 situation yet.

 


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